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"When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like."
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"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."

"It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying."

"The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage."

"It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable."

"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."
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"There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them."


"I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself."


"You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable."


"If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it."


"If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else."


"All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult."


"You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could."


"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
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